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...soldiers want to sing me a song. He stands close and recites the words in English as the soldiers sing. It is a song about the day "Uncle Ho" declared their country's independence in Hanoi's Ba Dinh Square. I hear these words: "All men are created equal. They are given certain rights; among these are life, liberty and happiness." I begin to cry and clap. These young men should not be our enemy. They celebrate the same words Americans do. The song ends with a refrain about the soldiers vowing to keep the "blue skies above Ba Dinh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Book Excerpt: My Life So Far | 4/4/2005 | See Source »

...annoyed by barriers that are again being put up for disadvantaged groups in the 21st century, barriers that bar access to me." A disabled-rights group sued Berlin's Department for City Development to demand revisions, on the basis that the design breached the state's law on equal opportunities - and that disabled people had been persecuted during the Holocaust. A German court rejected the suit, arguing that the changes would injure "the nature of the artistic conception." Europe's disabled people complain that their concerns about access have been dismissed for too long. "We simply cannot be refused access...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Access Denied | 4/3/2005 | See Source »

...Legalized porn had a sister trend in the early 70s: feminism. Deep Throat benefited from that as well. The movie did acknowledge the existence of a clitoral orgasm, though by transporting it to a part of the body where friction would give men equal pleasure. In real life, fellatio can be deemed an act of submission for the woman (and emission for the man). In this movie's life, it brings a woman to ecstasy. "Guess what?" shouts Erica Jong in Inside Deep Throat.. "It's not true!" What is true is that erupting sperm is the money shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: When Porno Was Chic | 3/29/2005 | See Source »

...while women are outstripping men in college enrollment, men and women still do not receive equal returns from a college education, said Barbara Gault, director of research at the Institute for Women’s Policy Research in Washington...

Author: By Candice N. Plotkin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Women Now Majority of Undergrads | 3/25/2005 | See Source »

...waiting for opportunities.? China has no need to exert itself or take risks on the foreign policy front as its power appears to expand exponentially in proportion to its massive economic growth, which has averaged 9 percent per annum over two decades. China's GDP is slated to equal Britain's this year; Germany's in 2009, Japan's in 2017, and America's by 2042 - although some analysts say that by measure of purchasing power parity, it could match the U.S. as early...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Frank Talk in Beijing | 3/24/2005 | See Source »

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